Re: Simulation argument in the NY Times

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 21:51:33 MDT


Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> Like say, for example, floating point errors at the extreme margins
> of the large and small?
>
> Would look a lot like quantum uncertainty, don't you think?

Wouldn't look anything remotely like quantum uncertainty. For one
thing you couldn't do quantum computing with it.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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